Well, at least one pattern jumps out right from the start. Stephen did this, Stephen did that, this happened to Stephen, that about Colbert, "Mr. Colbert," "Stephen?", "Stephen!"

Other than that, though, not a bad mix. A couple of visual scene-setters (16, 23), some straightforward dialogue (1, 7), some ambiguous dialogue that only starts to make sense as the story goes on (21, 22), a few that are all exposition (5, 12), some first-person (16, 17), some third-person-limited (25, 20, 9), some very short (8, 21) and some longer (10) but most somewhere in the middle.

Though I should probably lay the "it start(s/ed)" line (6, 18) to rest. And, seriously, try to find more creative kickoffs than "Stephen did X". (Though, in the case of 3, I confess I was really just trying to get the beginning over with so I could get to the smut.)

(What say the rest of you? Any thoughts? Observations? Blatantly obvious patterns that you can't believe I haven't spotted, already?)